Arts and Letters
- Samuel Johnson (dramatist) (1691–1773), author of Hurlothrumbo
- Samuel Johnson (American educator) (1696–1772), American colonial intellectual and educator; first president of King's College (now Columbia University)
- Samuel Johnson (pamphleteer) (1649–1703), English political writer
- Samuel Johnson (Nigerian historian) (1846–1901), Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba
- Samuel Johnson Jr. (1757–1836), American schoolteacher and lexicographer
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